The Schooling Return on the Non-farm Income of Chinese Western Rural Labors

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10.2991/icemet-15.2015.12How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Non-farm Income; Schooling Return; Mincer Income Model

Abstract

Education plays an important role in improving Chinese rural laborers’ non-farm incomes. However, several analyses have shown that the returns on schooling are very low in the western region, which could have a negative influence on improving farmers’ incomes and the even development of the national economy. No previous research has addressed this question. This paper is based on large samples from a rural household survey, using Mincer income model to estimate the schooling return. The results showed the following: The Mincer schooling returns were estimated to range from 2.7 to 3.9% using parametric methods. This result is lower than that in most recent studies.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiang Luan
AU  - Tingting Li
AU  - Jiancheng Chen
AU  - Pei Guo
PY  - 2015/08
DA  - 2015/08
TI  - The Schooling Return on the Non-farm Income of Chinese Western Rural Labors
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 55
EP  - 58
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemet-15.2015.12
DO  - 10.2991/icemet-15.2015.12
ID  - Luan2015/08
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